Not want­i­ng to be a spoil­sport or rain on the pa­rade of eu­pho­ria, suc­cess, and ela­tion cur­rent­ly em­brac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go crick­et, there is one thing that has trou­bled me for a while, and this is as good a time as any to raise it.

Nu-Iron Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) I capped a dom­i­nant do­mes­tic sea­son by com­plet­ing the dou­ble on Sat­ur­day night, lift­ing the T&T Crick­et Board/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TTCB/TKR) Trinidad T20 Fes­ti­val crown at Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, to add to the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion League ti­tle they se­cured ear­li­er this year.

Trinidad and To­ba­go swim­mer Dy­lan Carter de­liv­ered an im­pres­sive per­for­mance in the men’s 50-me­tre but­ter­fly fi­nal at the Pro Swim Se­ries in Sacra­men­to on Sat­ur­day night, nar­row­ly miss­ing out on vic­to­ry.

Jor­dan Thong com­plet­ed a tre­ble at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion (TTT­TA) Sil­ver Bowl Age Group Cham­pi­onships.

Ter­rence Hinds up­root­ing of Guyana’s Nial Smith’s off-stump not on­ly crowned Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force crick­eters as re­gion­al Four-Day cham­pi­ons but end­ed two decades of re­gion­al heart­break.

​The small, re­mote com­mu­ni­ty of San­ta Cruz came to the fore­front Sat­ur­day when Promise House T&T held its in­au­gur­al 5K road race to raise aware­ness for its work pre­serv­ing lives and pro­vid­ing care for the el­der­ly and the ill in T&T.

Club San­do de­liv­ered a com­mand­ing per­for­mance to se­cure the Pre­mier­ship II Trinidad T20 Fes­ti­val 2026 crown, over­pow­er­ing En­deav­our Sports Club by 70 runs in a high-oc­tane fi­nal at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port of Spain Sat­ur­day.

Se­nior na­tion­al foot­baller Rio Car­dines reached an­oth­er im­por­tant mile­stone in his young ca­reer on Sun­day, mak­ing his Eng­lish Pre­mier League de­but for Crys­tal Palace in the club’s 2-1 de­feat against ti­tle win­ner Ar­se­nal.

XI­A­MEN – Sh­er­ic­ka Jack­son sent a thun­der­ous warn­ing to her ri­vals on Sat­ur­day, storm­ing to a sea­son’s best and meet record of 21.87 sec­onds in the women’s 200 me­tres at the Xi­a­men Di­a­mond League in Chi­na.

There was a time when sports cov­er­age sim­ply meant show­ing the game. The cam­era fol­lowed the ball, a com­men­ta­tor called the ac­tion, the fi­nal whis­tle blew and every­one moved on to the next fix­ture.

Swim­mer Dy­lan Carter pro­duced the third-fastest time in the men’s 50-me­tre but­ter­fly semi­fi­nals Sat­ur­day to se­cure a place in the fi­nal, which was sched­uled for last night at the 2026 TYR Pro Swim Se­ries in Sacra­men­to, USA.

ST JOHN’S - Open­ing bat­ter John Camp­bell struck an op­ti­mistic tone on the sec­ond day of the West In­dies’ high-per­for­mance train­ing camp in An­tigua, de­clar­ing that a clear tac­ti­cal blue­print and to­tal team buy-in have put the side on the right path ahead of their One day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against Sri Lan­ka.